Building frame structure



April 21, 1942. F. LANG BUILDING FRAME STRUCTURE Filed July 12, 1938 Z7Z-Zam Patented Apr. 21, 1942 BUILDING FRAME STRUCTURE Filip Ludvig Lang, Waxio, Sweden Application July 12, 1938, Serial No. 218,852 In Sweden July 14, 1937 2 Claims.

The present invention relates to a building frame structure and has for its object to provide an improved fitting for movably connecting building elements produced in the mill and transported to the place of erection in condition for assembly.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 shows a vertical section of a sill at a corner of a building structure which is provided with a fitting constructed according to the invention.

Figures 2 and 3 are horizontal sections of the upright in the same corner at a distance from the sill and at the sill respectively.

Figure 4 is a perspective of said fitting.

Figures 5 and 6 show a vertical and horizontal section respectively of another embodiment of a corner construction.

Referring to the drawing in detail particularly to Figs. 1 to 4 the sills are indicated by 92, the upright by 93 and the stay by 94. In Figure 4 there is shown a fitting 95 composed of angularly disposed L-shaped parts fitted into central grooves 86 in the end portions of the respective abutting building elements. One sill 92 is turnable around a bolt 9! extending through the sill and through a hole Ella in one part of the fitting. In the same way the upright 93 is turnable around the bolt 98 which traverses the hole 98a of the other part of the fitting. The angular portion of the fitting is received in the roove 96 of the other sill 92 and is secured to said sill by bolts 99 traversing the sill and the holes 9a in the fitting. The stay 94 is fixed to the upright 93 by bolt and nut IUB. In order that one shall be able to adjust the stay to the correct position, its end portion resting against the sill is made displaceable. This displaceability is obtained by a plate III which is adapted to be displaced in the sill and locked in the desired position. The stay is turnably fixed to the plate by the bolt Hill, the said bolt projecting into a groove I I2 in the stay. The plate extends into a groove N3 of the sill having slots in the side walls thereof through which project bolts H4, the latter also passing through the plate so that the plate can be moved to and fro and fixed in the desired position.

In the corner construction shown in Figures 5 and 6 the sills are indicated by H9 and the upright by I20. One sill is turnably fixed to the legs of a U-shaped plate I2I by a bolt I22. The web of the plate is positioned in a central slit I25 in the other sill. Into this slit I25 a plate I24 is fitted which also is positioned in a slit I23 in the upright I20. The two plates are fixed to one another and to the last mentioned sill by the bolt I26. Moreover, the plate is preferably fixed to the sill, into which the plate has been fitted, by a second bolt I2'I, The upright is turnable around a bolt I28 inserted through the plate I24. In this embodiment of the invention the plate I24 and contiguous web of the U-shaped plate form a plane flange constituting one part of the fitting and the legs of the U-shaped plate form spaced flanges constituting another part of the fitting.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a building frame structure for walls, floors and roof of portable buildings, three frame elements. one of said elements being slotted, a fitting of angular form and including two L- shaped parts disposed perpendicularly to one another, a bolt securing the angle of the fitting in the slot of said slotted element, and bolts pivotally connecting the two other of said frame elements to each of the shorter legs of the fitting whereby the several elements may be folded together in compact relation.

2. In a building frame structure for walls, floors and roof of portable buildings, three frame elements, a fitting including a plane flange and spaced flanges projecting perpendicularly from the plane flange, a bolt pivotally connecting one of said elements to the plane flange, a second bolt pivotally connecting another of said elements to the spaced flanges, the third element having a slot therein, and a bolt securing one of said fianges in said slot, said fitting connecting together one end each of the several elements whereby the latter may be folded together in compact relation.

FILIP LUDVIG LANG. 

